~Zella's Point of View~I woke up to find the attic still decorated.That was the thing about Evander Ashford: he'd put everything up before Christmas, and nothing had been taken down. The lights were still on along the staircase, the tree was still in the corner of the living room with its antique ornaments catching the morning light, the wreath still on the front door. Brynn had told me he did this every year, no matter where they were, that Christmas morning always felt like Christmas morning no matter what city they woke up in.He'd done it here too, silently, before any of us arrived, and now two days of Christmas had passed and everything was still in place. She wasn't sure if it was out of habit, because he simply hadn't had time to take it down, or because a part of him still wasn't ready to let go.I stood in the hallway with my hand on the doorframe of my room, staring at the lights and thinking about a man who decorated attics in the dark for his daughter, shook hands with
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